Fixed income

While the central bank’s support may help keep credit flowing amid the coronavirus, “it doesn’t necessarily improve the outlook for bankruptcies.”

The $349 billion stimulus package from the Small Business Administration provides loans to cover payroll, rent and utilities for up to eight weeks.

The fund ditched its tail-risk protection weeks before the coronavirus sent stocks into a tailspin, according to people familiar with its decision.

The firm sees "light at the end of the tunnel," says Silvia Ardagna, managing director in the investment strategy group within the firm's private wealth management unit.

“This market environment is a very good one for investors to do a self-awareness check,” an expert says.

“Ideally, you would like clients to try not to make really short-term decisions, however this is an unprecedented situation,” an expert says.

It’s impressive how quickly a two-day plunge affects the tone of bulls.

The funds are also some of the lowest-duration products in the market.

The central bank’s pledge to buy investment-grade credit and certain funds helped spark a rally in higher-rated debt.

Asset managers may need to reassess the assumption that’s become widely held in recent years: that inflation is dead.

Turning loss into profit in down markets can seem like magic to some clients.

“Recent further Fed action from COVID-19 seems to put another layer on a near-40-year bond bull market,” an expert says.

The relief allows funds to obtain cash infusions through collateralized loans until the end of June.

Seeing the size and variation in average returns among a variety of asset classes offers perspective for those who are anxious.

The asset manager will serve “as a third-party vendor to operationalize these purchases and transact with the primary dealers,” the New York Fed said.

Bear markets come with checklists of savvy moves to make for investment portfolios.

The funds are trading at staggering discounts to their net asset values in what some have dubbed an “illiquidity doom loop.”

Five of the top seven performers this year carry AA ratings.

Market plunges are normal and stocks are likely to recover and earn a positive return over the long term, says an expert.

The platform aims to "assist … in meeting demands for redemptions” as alarm over the coronavirus continues to cause strains in short-term funding markets.